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A Red Meat Profit Partnership initiative is giving school pupils a chance to experience life on a farm.

With the aim of showing how farms operate and sparking interest in future career paths, national 2012 Ballance Farm Environment Awards supreme winners Jane and Blair Smith hosted a class from North Otago's Papakaio School.

The year 7 and 8 pupils went with teacher Damian Brown to Newhaven Farms, the Smiths' sheep and beef property northwest of Oamaru.

The school pupils get a chance to touch growing wool as Newhaven Farms sheep are run up the race.